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I have to say that it is all about attitude. Many folks have stated that they would rather die than go thru something horrific. Some insist that they will 'be taken up' in some sort of Rapture (for which there is no Biblical proof) and will avoid it, floating unconcerned above it all. Some prefer to ignore it. Some talk a blue streak about their planning for it - even post videos of their guns and supplies on the Internet! - but are merely setting themselves up for failure. We will each have choices to make, if and when such a thing happens. Neither panic nor denial will change whatever happens - the only thing that changes how it affects us is how we respond to it.
I have been thru several disasters, and the only thing you can do is plan - thoughtfully, quietly, and with plans within plans, for every eventuality. My karate instructor used to be appalled that I would enter every fight with a grin on my face. "You look like you are enjoying it! What is up with that smile?" No, I know my capabilities, I have worked and planned to reach that point, and I am smiling because it disarms my opponent and makes him not trust himself.
This illustrates why, in the history of warfare, no assault on a fixed position has ever been effective.
With a few exceptions. One noteworthy exception is Easy Company's assault on the artillery position on D-Day, an extremely well managed assault and still taught to cadets at West Point. But, I was addressing this in the context of untrained civilians trying to loot a well fortified home, where your assertion would likely apply with 100% accuracy.
What's appalling to me is that some people actually seem to be looking forward to this happening. Get a grip!
I didn't get that from these posts. Some people are prepping, some not.
There's discussion about guns and protecting your stash.
We're in a very dangerous place right now in the US. It could go either way..recovery or another double dip and that second dip could be what throws us into a second Great Depression. No one can foresee the future, not even the best economists/analysts.
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
I'm sure the majority of Americans do not want us to collapse.
But it's certainly not foolish to be prepared.
On the bright side though..you've bought stuff at lower prices so when/if inflation rages you'll be sitting pretty well living off your stash.
Watch too much hollywood movie? I personally think American are the most job-loss-tolerated citizen. If such a massive and rapid job loss happen in Europe / China / India, you don't need to wait until 2012 to have riots.
We're too preoccupied with whats going to happen with Jon and Kate plus 8 and the ballon boy hoax and the latest the paparazzi can dig up on celebrities to care about our jobs getting shipped overseas for the profits of Wall Street.
I have to disagree with you there, Chris. Decency doesn't prevail. Even when it is smarter to be decent, more productive to be decent, the marauders and barbarians are either slaughtered wholesale - or become politicians. Then they can rape, slaughter, and instigate wars with impunity, and with directed armies instead of undisciplined and multi-directional bands of pillagers.
All life is about power - getting it, keeping it, awarding it, taking it away from others. The only way you can win is either be at the top of the heap - or avoid the heap altogether. Even then, some of the trash can always fall off of the heap and roll toward you... Self-empowerment is never enough for the weak, or the weak-minded. They must always have power over others, too.
I agree with you Granny. If someone like Ghandi or Martin Luther King can simply be assasinated by someone who disagrees with them, then decency will never prevail.
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One of the best quotes I've ever heard is attributable to Celente -- "When people lose everything and they have nothing to lose, they loseit."
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I got a grip on my shotgun. 
Then they can rape, slaughter, and instigate wars with impunity, and with directed armies instead of undisciplined and multi-directional bands of pillagers. 
